Le pont Mirabeau | Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire

Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI ENG HUN HUN HUN

Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
  Et nos amours
 Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne
La joie venait toujours après la peine.
  Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
  Les jours s'en vont je demeure

Les mains dans les mains restons face à face
  Tandis que sous
 Le pont de nos bras passe
Des éternels regards l'onde si lasse
  Vienne la nuite sonne l'heure
  Les jours s'en vont je demeure

L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
  L'amour s'en va
 Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Espérance est violente
  Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
  Les jours s'en vont je demeure

Passent les jours et passent les semaines
  Ni temps passé
 Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
  Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
  Les jours s'en vont je demeure

About the headline (FAQ)

First published in the revue Les Soirées de Paris, no. 1, February 1912, and then in Alcools in 1913.

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le pont Mirabeau", written 1912, appears in Alcools, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1912 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Jean Absil (1893 - 1974), "Le pont Mirabeau", op. 43 no. 2 (1940), published 1968 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Alcools. Chœurs à 4 voix mixtes a cappella sur des poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, no. 2, Paris : Henry Lemoine & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean Apothéloz (1900 - 1965), "Le pont Mirabeau", 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons sur des textes de Guillaume Apollinaire pour chant et piano, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Karl Baraquin (b. 1968), "Le pont Mirabeau", 1998, published 1998 [ baritone and piano ], Éditions musicales Regia [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Beydts (1896 - 1953), "Le pont Mirabeau", 1940 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies [1940], no. 1, Éd. Pierre Noël [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Le pont Mirabeau", 1939 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Georges Dandelot (1895 - 1975), "Le pont Mirabeau", 1942, published 1944 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq Poèmes Précieux, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Léo Ferré (1916 - 1993), "Le pont Mirabeau", published 1952 [ low voice and piano ], Éd. S.E.M.I. Méridian [sung text checked 1 time]
by Éric Geneste (b. 1958), "Le Pont Mirabeau", 2020, first performed 2021 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Romances pour voix et piano, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Libby Larsen (b. 1950), "Le Pont Mirabeau", 1973 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Michael Purves-Smith (b. 1945), "Sous le pont Mirabeau ", 2001 [ mezzo-soprano, clarinet in A and B flat, and piano ], from Contrasts in Love, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean Rivier (1896 - 1987), "Le Pont Mirabeau", 1935, published 1959 [ high voice and piano ], from Deux poèmes de Rimbaud et deux poèmes d'Apollinaire, no. 4, Éd. SEMI [sung text not yet checked]
by Daniel Ruyneman (1886 - 1963), "Sous le pont Mirabeau", 1936, copyright © 1952 [ soprano and alto and instrumental ensemble ], Amsterdam: Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
by Martha Helen Schmidt (b. 1956), "Le Pont Mirabeau", copyright © 2011 [ high voice, piano, violin ], from Quatre chansons for high voice, piano, violin, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Claude Tricot (b. 1926), "Le pont Mirabeau" [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies, recueil 1, no. 11, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 130